Word: violins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adventuresome audiences that had made the pilgrimage downtown to Leo Castelli's influential art gallery on West Broadway in SoHo, for example, might encounter minimalist sculpture by Don Judd and Richard Serra or hear Glass's new sounds in concert. Near by, Performance Artist Anderson was playing her violin on a street corner while wearing ice skates atop a melting block of ice. Composer Steve Reich had already experimented with out-of-sync tape loops in pieces like Come Out; Choreographer Childs had created her early works, like Street Dance. "No one organized an official group or issued a manifesto...
...talking in February, but only about a joint bid for Hughes Aircraft, which was soon to be auctioned off. After brief consideration, they decided that it would be a mistake to break up Hughes. Says Dingman: "It would make no sense. Like a symphony, if you sold off the violin section, it would not perform as well." At that point, the talks shifted to a possible Allied-Signal merger. At meetings in La Jolla, Calif., and Morristown, N.J., the deal came together...
Monday April 15: Reinhard Goebel, Baroque violin...
...play an instrument, Tsang began playing the piano when he was six. He added the cello at age seven, inspired by a concert which his schoolteacher's son gave. "I fell in love with the tone of the cello," he says, adding, "Besides that, everyone was playing the violin...
...takes the word play seriously. A coquette demands, "Why don't you say something?" Replies her lover: "Forgot my lines." A woman theorizes, "There were several Lenins. The real one was killed at the very beginning." Another abruptly decides that she is not in love, because "there was no violin...